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unusual facts about Wales, Utah


John K. Edmunds

Edmunds was born in Wales, Utah to Thomas Edmunds, an immigrant from Wales, and Frieda Louise Kaestli, an immigrant from Switzerland.


Aberaeron

In Wales Illustrated in a Series of Views by Henry Gastineau, published in 1810, it states: "Near the town are some remains of an ancient fortress called Castell Cadwgan, thought to have been erected by king Cadwgan, about the year 1148."

Acarospora janae

It is known only from the type locality, and a modern collection made from Marks Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina, although Knudsen suggests that it may occur infrequently from Utah and the Colorado Plateau south into Mexico.

Annie Taylor

Annie Taylor Hyde (née Anna Maria Ballantyne Taylor), Mormon leader and Utah Pioneer

Battle of Hill 60

Illowra Battery otherwise known as Hill 60, is a World War II fortification, in Port Kembla, New South Wales

Belmore, New South Wales

Belmore is named after the fourth Earl of Belmore, Governor of New South Wales from 1868-1872.

Bingham Canyon Mine

The Kennecott Copper Corporation, established in 1903 to operate mines in Kennecott, Alaska, purchased a financial interest in Utah Copper in 1915 and fully acquired the company in 1936.

Blues and Roots Festival

East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival, a music festival hosted at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia

Brighton United F.C.

Maurice Parry played for Brighton United in the 1899–00 season, before having a long career with Liverpool and making 16 appearances for Wales.

Caerau Hillfort

Caerau Hillfort (ST13377498) is a large triangular multivallate Iron Age hillfort occupying the western tip of an extensive ridge-top plateau in the western suburbs of Caerau and Ely, Cardiff, Wales.

Campus Studios

Its first film, Fire Creek, was released digitally for select theaters in Utah May 8, 2009.

Church of Christ

Latter Day Church of Christ, a Mormon fundamentalist denomination based in Utah

City Stadium

Cardiff City Stadium, in Cardiff, Wales - the home of Cardiff City F.C.

Clas Ohlson

There are now 12 stores in England and Wales, including Manchester, Leeds, Watford, Kingston upon Thames, Reading, Liverpool, Merry Hill, Cardiff, Doncaster, Norwich and Newcastle upon Tyne.

Clive Lucas

The Mint - Sydney, Headquarters of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales

Deep Creek Railroad

Supported by a group of investors that included Utah Senator Reed Smoot and the president of the Western Pacific Railroad, planning for the new railway began in 1916, and it was constructed the following year.

Deeside College

From 1974, the North East Wales Institute expanded under the vision of another prominent educator, Professor Glyn O Phillips, who took the institution forward and made it into a significant research based and practice based technological organisation which had a financial turnover equalling a great many universities close by, like Liverpool, Manchester and Bangor.

Earl C. Tingey

For periods of time he has also been a member of the University of Utah Alumni Board and the National Advisory Board of the Utah Symphony.

Edmond Stanley

Sir Edmond Stanley SL (1760–1843) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician who served as Serjeant-at-Law of the Parliament of Ireland, Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, now Penang, and subsequently Chief Justice of Madras.

Fibernet Corp.

The company sponsors various non-profit organizations, community-oriented programs, and business development projects locally and nationally, including the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Utah County, Habitat for Humanity, and Great Strides, a national fundraising event run by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto

The district of Minto in New South Wales, Australia, was named after him in 1809.

Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford

In 1282, war with Wales broke out again; this time it would not be simply a punitive campaign, but a full-scale war of conquest.

Indi Script Records

Indi Script Records is an independent record label founded in 1999 by Mateus Kotok, a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and painter born in Ogden, Utah, in 1971.

James Sommerin

Returning to Wales to be closer to his family, Sommerin joined The Crown at Whitebrook in Monmouthshire in 2000 as Sous Chef.

John B. Haberlen

Haberlen has participated as a jury member and auditor in major choral festivals worldwide, including the St. Petersburg Choral Festival, the World Choir in Cardiff, Wales; Marktoberdorf, Germany; Riva del Garda, Italy; Budapest, Hungary; Denmark and Sydney, Australia.

John Jones, Talysarn

John Jones, Talysarn (1 March 1796 - 16 August 1857), was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister, regarded as one of the greatest preachers in the history of Wales.

Jones/Ginzel

Current and recent major works include the Visual Arts Complex at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Hoboken Ferry Terminal in New Jersey, the Tiber River in Rome, and public buildings in Florida and Utah.

Lewis Edwards

Edwards made his home at Bala, and there, in 1837, with David Charles, his brother-in-law, he opened a school, which ultimately as Bala College, became the denominational college for north Wales.

Libanus

Libanus, Powys, a village in the Brecon Beacons National Park, in the county of Powys, Wales, United Kingdom

Mam Cymru

National personification of Wales, also called Dame Wales used in cartoons, most notably by Joseph Morewood Staniforth.

Margaret Bird

Margaret R. Bird (born 1947) is an economist and school trust lands activist in Utah.

Molly Parkin

Parkin was born in 1932, the second of two daughters, in Pontycymer in the Garw Valley, Glamorgan, Wales.

Mynydd Maendy

Mynydd Maendy (translation: Maindy Mountain) is a hilltop and moorland, near Gilfach Goch, in south Wales, to the southwest of Tonyrefail.

New South Wales Court of Appeal

Although the New South Wales Court of Appeal commenced operation on 1 January 1966 with the appointment of the President, Sir Gordon Wallace, and six Judges of Appeal, Bernard Sugerman, Charles McLelland, Cyril Walsh, Kenneth Jacobs, Kenneth Asprey and John Holmes Dashwood, the Court of Appeal was established in 1965, replacing the former appellate Full Court of the New South Wales Supreme Court.

Newport Networks

Founder, Sir Terence H. Matthews has a history of naming companies after places in South Wales, from where he originates.

Phil Bayton

Joining the Thornhill Cycling Club in Birmingham he won a handicap race at Hirwaun in South Wales as a 16 year old junior and a year later was part of the GB Olympic squad under Norman Sheil.

Phil Riesen

Riesen was for many years a versatile broadcaster, at stations including KIFI in Idaho Falls, Idaho and KALL and KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Pictures in the Dark

Singers on this single includes his girlfriend at the time, Anita Hegerland, Barry Palmer and well-known Welsh choirboy Aled Jones.

Robert H. Roberts

Robert H. Roberts (June 5, 1837 Nantglyn, Denbighshire, Wales – September 3, 1888 Boonville, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Secessionism in Western Australia

Western Australia was grouped with Scotland, Wales, the Basque Country, and Catalonia as "places seeking maximum fiscal and policy autonomy from their national capitals" in an October 2013 opinion piece in The New York Times.

Super Formation Soccer 94

Using two special codes, the player will have access to the special/hidden teams which didn't take part in the 1994 World Cup: England, Wales, Uruguay, Denmark and France.

The Folk of the Fringe

Many of the stories take place in, or are connected to, a fictional post-apocalyptic state of Deseret around the former Mormon areas of Utah, which was clearly inspired by the historical State of Deseret.

Tresco

Tresco, Elizabeth Bay, an historic residence in New South Wales, Australia.

Tunnels of Gibraltar

The formation appears to have been laid down in a tropical environment somewhat similar to the Bahamas today, and on the basis of fossil evidence an Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) age has been proposed for the Gibraltar Limestone, though in appearance it has a strong resemblance to the Carboniferous Limestone that underlies large parts of England and Wales.

Utah Sucker

The Utah Sucker, Catostomus ardens, is a sucker of the family Catostomidae found in the upper Snake River and the Lake Bonneville areas of western North America.

Utah Valley

Novell and WordPerfect were instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for software development.

Vanessa Beeman

She studied prehistory at Manchester and Liverpool, and for a Post Graduate Diploma in Education in Wales before teaching at a school in Truro, going on to a post with the Federal Department of Antiquities in Nigeria, and afterwards to teach at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria.

WLR

Willandra Lakes Region, a World Heritage Site in New South Wales, Australia

Y Fronllwyd

Y Fronllwyd, also known as Carnedd y Filiast North Top, is a top of Carnedd y Filiast in Snowdonia, Wales forming part of the Glyderau.

Yr Elen

The etymology of the name is unclear, with the personal name "Helen" or "Eleanor" being one possibility, perhaps after Eleanor de Montfort (d. 1282), princess of Wales and wife of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.


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